Alfio Puglisi wrote:
GNU tar on Cygwin extracts all files correctly, except for the last ones [...]. pax doesn't seem to be available for Cygwin. I found with surprise that there's one included with windows, but it doesn't work.
Have you tried Winzip? I have always extracted [.tar].gz files with Winzip, and it always worked fine. (It doesn't do bzip2 though, unfortunately.)